The Logitech G15's characteristics
Back to my question. Is the Logitech G15 a good keyboard for Aion. I came up with this question shortly after I wrote the article about Aion macros. If you read that article, you'll find out that you can use Aion's ingame macros to enhance your gaming experience. You can make those as simple or as complicated as you want and you can make much more than you can with the Logitech G15. This kind of removes 1 of the characteristics of the Logitech G15.The second characteristic, the LCD display which shows you information about the game. Like i said, I'm not really sure what information it shows you, but I can't imagine the information shown on the LCD display is more important than what's going on on your screen. While you're having a massive battle with the other faction, you're not going to take a break and take a look at your LCD display and read what information it shows you. So I'm not really intrigued by this characteristic either.
Which leaves us with the third and last characteristic, the Logitech G15's Illuminated characters. Right now I'm using a $10 Trust keyboard. And when it gets dark here, I'm forced to turn on the lights because it's just impossible for me to see which keys I'm pressing. If I had a Logitech G15 on the other hand, I wouldn't have to turn on the lights. Another upside to the illuminated characters is that the keys you're pressing are more visible than a standard keyboard.
What I think about the Logitech G15 for Aion
The Logitech G15 has 3 characteristics which makes it a popular keyboard for gamers. It's ability to write macros. It's LCD display and it's illuminated characters. Out of those 3 characteristics, 2 are useless for Aion. That's how I think about it. The third characteristic, the Illuminated characters is something that a gamer really needs if he wants to game all day and night. But is it really worth paying $69,95 for a keyboard that gives you Illuminated characters?All in all, I don't think that the Logitech G15 is a good keyboard for Aion. This doesn't mean I don't like the Logitech G15 or that it's a bad keyboard. I just don't think it's worth paying $69,95 for the Logitech G15 just so it can flash lights at you.
For those that wonder what the Logitech G15 looks like. Here is picture
